What are the most common fake chinese dishes served in chinese joints and
restaurants in your area? Here in northern Italy the most widespread fake is
"riso alla cantonese" (tr. "cantonese rice"), which does not exist nor in
Canton nor in all of China, or so a chinese friend told me: basically it's a
dish of rice with no sauces but just a lot of peas and bits of scrambled
eggs, along with diced prosciutto cotto (!!!). Every chinese restaurant or
take-away has them on the menu, every single one.
Here a shot of the infamous cantonese rice:
http://www.giallozafferano.it/images.../slide-450.jpg
And in your area?
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"Un pasto senza vino e' come un giorno senza sole"
Anthelme Brillat Savarin